Mountaineering category: 669 books
Everest 1951
The Mount Everest Reconnaissance Expedition 1951
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest. They climbed from the south, from Nepal, via the Khumbu Glacier - a route first pioneered in 1951 by a reconnaissance expedition led by Eric Shipton. Everest 1951 is the account of this expedition. It was the first to...
Thin Air
Encounters in the Himalayas
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 1998
* This classic established Child as one of the great mountaineering writers of our time * Describes Child's apprenticeship to such climbing legends as Doug Scott, Don Whillans, and Alan Rouse * Written with a keen eye for detail, a firm sense of drama and, of course, wit Climbing a Himalayan peak was...
Honouring High Places
The Mountain Life of Junko Tabei
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
A collection of personal stories and reflections based on the memoirs of Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb Mount Everest and the Seven Summits.
Honouring High Places is a compelling collection of highlights from Junko Tabei’s stirring life that she considered important, inspiring and...
Shishapangma
The alpine-style first ascent of the South-West Face
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
In 1982, following the relaxation of access restrictions to Tibet, six climbers set off for the Himalaya to explore the little-known Shishapangma massif in Tibet. Dealing with a chaotic build-up and bureaucratic obstacles so huge they verged on comical, the mountaineers gained access to Shishapangma's...
Kiss or Kill
Confessions of a Serial Climber
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
* Mark Twight's collected works, some never before published in North America
* Includes dramatic black and white mountaineering photos
* Features brand new epilogues to all of the stories
They call him Dr. Doom.
Raving and kicking against mediocrity, his anger and pain simmer close to the...
Everest
Alone at the Summit
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Every day, the path up the South Col route to the summit of Everest becomes a little more worn by the tread of dozens of package-tour climbers, but few dare to try the East, or Kangshung, Face, a sheer, avalanche-swept wall of snow and ice only first conquered in 1983. Five years later, Stephen Venables...
Off Trail
Finding My Way Home in the Colorado Rockies
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Only one person believed Jane Parnell when she reported being raped at twenty-one: the mountain man who first led her up one peak after another in the Colorado Rockies and who then became her husband. Parnell took to mountaineering in the Rocky Mountains as a means to overcome her family’s history...
by Frank Smythe
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
"Why do you climb?" The mountaineer has no answer to this question. The best things in the world cannot adequately be expressed in speech or print; they are part of the soul.' In Climbs and Ski Runs, Frank Smythe takes the reader on Alpine ski trips and Dolomite adventures, up first ascents...
Camp Six
The 1933 Everest Expedition
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Frank Smythe's Camp Six is one of the greatest Everest accounts ever written. It is the story of the 1933 Everest Expedition, in which Smythe, climbing alone after his partner Eric Shipton had turned back ill, reached a point perhaps higher than any man had done before - and some twenty years before...
No Easy Way
The challenging life of the climbing taxman
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
‘If we were guaranteed success in everything we tried then life would be pretty boring.’
Mainstream news reports about climbing are dominated by action from the world’s highest mountains, more often than not focusing on tragedy and controversy. Far removed from this high-altitude circus,...
Exceptional Mountains
A Cultural History of the Pacific Northwest Volcanoes
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Over the past 150 years, people have flocked to the Pacific Northwest in increasing numbers, in part due to the region’s beauty and one of its most exceptional features: volcanoes. This segment of the Pacific Ring of Fire has shaped not only the physical landscape of the region but also the psychological...
by Leslie Symons
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
To Ride the Mountain Winds, possibly the first history of aerial mountaineering to span the whole period from the 18th century to the present day, is written for everyone interested in the history of mountaineering and also those interested in the history of aviation and the limits to which pilots...
by Stewart Hawkins
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Wilfrid Noyce is best known for his mountaineering exploits during the period before the Second World War and until his death in 1962 in the Pamirs; he made a major contribution to the success of the 1953 Everest expedition. There were however many other sides to this quiet, diffident unassuming man....
A Dream of White Horses
Recollections of a Life on the Rocks
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
'The best climbing book I've ever read.' Lito Tejada Flores High Ed Drummond is one of the great characters of the British climbing scene. An inspired climber and writer, he made first ascents across the UK and wrote some of the most unusual articles in the mountaineering world. In doing so, he won...